* Senate get new member, three months to end of 8th Assembly * IBM creates facial recognition database without permission from models

MARCH 14, 2019 Can we please be nicer to our house helps and maids? Nkem Ndem I won’t deny it. I grew up in a house full of house helps and maids. [Forward](  [morning-banner](  MARCH 14, 2019 [***] [NKEM NDEM]( Can we please be nicer to our house helps and maids? Nkem Ndem I won’t deny it. I grew up in a house full of house helps and maids. There were three female: one that helped with cooking and going to the market, another that helped with washing clothes and sweeping the house and compound; and the last one that catered to the kids. We also had about seven males. One who sold water at the back (we had a borehole which was not common at the time in Aba); two who tended to the poultry and farm; the rest who just went to the office and catered to my Dad. [Read more]( [***] [Sabinews 2 ]( [***] [Nigerian-Senate]( Senate get new member, three months to end of 8th Assembly Isaac Alfa on Wednesday was sworn in as the representative of Kogi East senatorial district.Alfa will be replacing Atai Aidoko, the previous occupier of the senatorial seat which has witnessed a series of legal battles. Both contenders laid claim to the seat as the authentic candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which won the election. Also Read: Kano Rerun: ‘I’ll surprise the PDP’ – Ganduje Alfa was initially sworn in on June 2015 but was sacked in 2016 and Aidoko was put in his place which became a subject of litigation. [Read more]( [***] [Senate]( APC Senators protest Senate's resolution to debate 2019 elections The Senate has resolved to debate the 2019 elections which took place on the 23rd of February and 9th of March.In a point of order raised by Senator Dino Melaye on Wednesday, he urged his colleagues not to close their eyes to the conduct of the elections. Melaye said: "I want to bring a motion on the next legislative day so that the militarisation of the process and abuse will not go undiscussed in this parliament for posterity sake, solutions given and the President can be equally advised and electoral act signed into law as we begin to prepare for future elections." [Read more]( [***] [AD-gubernatorial-candidate-Owolabi-Salis]( Lagos 2019: 'Electoral process was shambolic' - AD Candidate, Salis The governorship candidate of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) in Lagos State, Owolabi Salis has rejected the outcome of the governorship election in the state, saying it was "a complete fraud". 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Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are down]( [Another Amazon device is getting Apple Music support in the US]( [***] [IBM-and-facial]( IBM creates facial recognition database without permission from models IBM is offering a large number of photographs from Flickr to researchers to use for training of a facial recognition programme and the models don't know this is being done. The report was made by NBC News. The photographs were taken from a collection of 99.2 million photographs and 0.8 million videos from Flickr in a publicly and freely available collection: the YFCC100M. The collection was compiled by Yahoo (which owned Flickr until its acquisition by SmugMug in April 2018) and shared under a Creative Commons license. [Read more]( [***] [fire-fox-send]( Mozilla launches free encrypted file-sharing service Firefox Send Mozilla has launched Firefox Send, a free encrypted file-sharing service that works on any browser. It made the announcement on Tuesday. To share a file, you simply visit the Send site and drag your file to a box on the Web page. Unregistered users may upload up to 1 gigabyte in files, while registered users have a 2.5 GB allowance. After uploading your files, you choose an expiration time for the link used to share them. Expirations can be set for number of downloads -- one to five, 50 or 100 -- or in increments of time, from five minutes to one hour, one day, or seven days. [Read more]( [***] [skin-printing]( How effective is printing skin to treat wounds? Printing layers of skin to help treat chronic wounds or burns may be on the horizon, thanks to a newly developed mobile skin bioprinting system. Scientists at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) in Winston-Salem, NC, have created a bioprinter that uses a person's own skin cells to create layers of new skin and apply them directly to the wound. 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